Franco-Haitian Revolution Almost all of the immense body
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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 237-240 · open book
The Franco-Haitian Revolution Almost all of the immense body of scholarship on the French revolution is so focused on a national France that the revolution in the colonies all but disappears.Yet when the revolution began in 1789, Saint Domingue producer of half the western world's sugar and coffee-was of enormous importance to the French economy and its propertied elite.